The assault of a UW-Platteville student on campus May 3 has been initially classified as a hate crime.

During the incident, homophobic slurs were used against the student, who is gay.

“Any time where we have a situation where it could possibly be a hate crime, we list it as such,” Laurel Skrede, chief of the UW-P campus police department, said. If a case may be a hate crime, it’s easier to classify it as such in the beginning of the investigation rather than after the fact.

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xecs at MTV Networks say the best way to distribute media over the Web is to "go an inch wide but a mile deep."

Instead of one central Web destination, Viacom-owned MTV Networks is building hundreds of sites around its content. An example of that strategy can be found at Logo, the unit that serves the gay and lesbian community.

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As 14-year-old Brandon McInerney prepares to be arraigned today in the slaying of 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, his lawyer is advancing a defense that at least partly blames school officials for the tragedy.

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The sport (art?) of ballroom dance isn't a foreign concept anymore, thanks to the phenomenal success of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," which has brought copious couples into dance classes ... mostly heterosexual couples, that is. So where would a same-sex couple go if they wanted to perfect the jive or learn the finer points of a waltz?

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A listing of which male celebs gays want to sleep with has been described as "downright revolutionary."

Gay entertainment website AfterElton.com said in a release that their "Hot 100 List" of hot people "is all about gay and bisexual men telling the world which men we think are sexy.

"Will last year's winner Jake Gyllenhaal repeat or will an out, gay man such as Neil Patrick Harris, T.R. Knight or John Barrowman nab the top slot?

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Gay List Daily, a swank e-publication 'dedicated to making trendy gays even more trendy and gay,' will launch three new editions in the coming weeks -- New York City and Los Angeles, as well as a National "anywhere" edition. Gay List Daily has been publishing a Dallas edition since late October 2007.

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He is undoubtedly an internet phenomenon - the overweight, unattractive nobody who became the toast of Hollywood.

The first real gossip columnist of the 21st century, Perez Hilton has also shown a pechant for speculating on the sexuality of movie stars and teen idols.

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Openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire will enter an official civil union with his partner of 20 years, Mark Andrew, in June. Robinson’s 2003 consecration as bishop caused a serious rupture that continues to grow in the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch.

Robinson, who has received death threats, said he wants to get formally partnered to protect Andrew before going to August’s Anglican Communion Lambeth Conference in England. The gathering of some 800 bishops from around the globe happens only once a decade.

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